That feeling you get when you’re having a bad day and your computer seems to want to fight you at every turn, yeah you know the one. It just drives you mad enough that your keystrokes are little more forceful (or a lot more) than you’re used to.
Soon your computer will sense your wrath.
TechFlash writes of Microsoft’s work on a keyboard with pressure sensitive keys that could allow an OS or other applications to do nifty things based on the level of force a user puts into his strokes. Here’s a tidbit:
The company describes the potential uses as "limitless," saying it has tested concepts including pressing a letter harder to get a capital letter or a larger font size, or hitting the delete key harder or softer depending on whether the user wants to delete one character or an entire word.
Given the likelihood of angry users mashing their backspace keys and deleting their entire works the keyboards of tomorrow better be shatter proof.
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